Speaking a bit more specifically on spirituality, we also have the revenge fantasies that are the Left Behind series of stories and, since religion is morality, we have the Hellboy kinds of visions of the afterlife (this can even include Buffy and the like, for argument's sake) and even the kind of Hell depicted in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and The Meaning of Life.
We are obsessed with a very American idea of Hell well beyond Italy's Dante, and all of the bad stuff that comes with it, as well as retribution, guilt, anger, and meaninglessness. These are the American numinous ideas, all negative.
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Date: 2007-07-16 07:09 pm (UTC)We are obsessed with a very American idea of Hell well beyond Italy's Dante, and all of the bad stuff that comes with it, as well as retribution, guilt, anger, and meaninglessness. These are the American numinous ideas, all negative.